WeatherBug Provides Geo Overlays for Map Mashups

A new mapping-related API from WeatherBug has a response type we don't see too often: images. The new service provides radar, temperature and other weather-related data as an overlay for Bing or Google Maps.

WeatherBug needs different URLs for Bing and Google because the way that tiles are arranged are different. For each platform, WeatherBug makes available five layers: Radar, Satellite, Temperature, Humidity and Pressure. For paid partners, more than 500 layers are available.

About the author:Adam DuVander
-- Adam heads developer relations at Orchestrate, a database-as-a-service company. He's spent many years analyzing APIs and developer tools. Previously he worked at SendGrid, edited ProgrammableWeb and wrote for Wired and Webmonkey. Adam is also the author of mapping API cookbook Map Scripting 101.